Improvement in fastenings for neck-ties



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WILLIAM J. CGWING, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT 'OF COLUMBIA'.

Letters Patent No.' 110,439, dated December 27, 1870.

IMPRQVEMENT lN FASTENINGS'AFICR NECK-TIES.

The Schedule referred to in the Letten Patent and part oi' the llame.

I, WILLIAM J COWING, of Washington, District of Columbia, have invented certain Improvements in Neck-Tie Fasteners, of which the following is a speciiication.

Of the drawing- Fgure 1 is a perspective view of the fastener alone;

Figure 2,'a view of the same attached to a necktie; and

Figure 3, a view of the same in position ou a shirt.- front.

'Ihis invention relates to a device intended 'to be attached to a. butteriiy neck-tie, andl provided with a pin and eye fonthat purpose, by means of which it may also be easily detached from the buttery, and further intended to be the means of fastening the butterfly to its proper place on the shirt in front of the collar, and provided for this purpose with a rider that sits on the front vbutton of the shirt-band, and with wings that extend to each side, between the outer and inner `parts of the collar, by means of which the fastener with the butterdy may also be readily removed from the shirt, all the various parts of the device being made from one piece of elastic wire.

.Referring to the drawing- A a is the rider for the shirt-band button, made in the usual forni.

b are the wings, each consisting of two branches, whereof the lower extends ii'oln the .nearest end of the rider a upward to a suitable distance, and is then bent backward and downward so as to form the upper branch.

c is an eye formed at the end of one of the upper branches.

d is a piu forming the prolongation of the opposite upper branch, a turn, d', of the wire serving to con` neet the pin andvbranch' and to render the pin additioually elastic.

) The pin is entered in the eye after being passed through the. butterfly, and thus serves to secure the latter to the fastener in a detachable manner.

The butterfly is fastened .to the shirt by placing the rider on the button and passing the wings. under the collar. If the wings strike the top of the collar, 4as they are designed to do, they will yield laterally, thus adjusting the pin to the rider and the under folds ot' the collar.

'Ihebutterfly can be removed vfrom readily as. it isV fastened to it. I'ani aware that the rider, wings, and lpin are all old-devices in neck-tie'-faste11e1s, and also that they have been combined linone fastener, that of J; B. Bisl1 op,'patented January 11, 1870; but I consider the shirt as it is so much simpler and cheaper of construction, being made all of one pieee, either by hand on apegged board or by a machine devised for the purpose.

I am also aware ofthe neck-tie supporter of George K. Snow, patented February 14, 1865, which is-indeed made all in one piece, but is inferior to my invention -iu the respect that it does not possess that adapta.- bility to collars of all sizes, that capacity for expansion when the space between vthe supportingbutton and the top of' the collar is too narrow, and for contraction when the space is too wide, which is the distiuguishing feature of my invention, and which causes the wings to always yield sufciently toeuable the fastener to'be placed under the collar and to always retain the fastener irrnly when once in place.

I claim as my iuvention- I f The rid er a, wn1gs.l1, eye v, and pin d, all coustructed and arranged to Op'erateas specified.

Witnesses: v idf-. J. OOWING.

GEO. E. BROWN, WM. MILNEs, Jr.

my invent-ion superior to Bishops, for the reason that 

